http://www.powderspace.com/Blog We live our freeskiing dreams - and we want to share them with you Mon, 18 May 2009 07:17:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the winter season slowly peaks, it is time to bring to body back to shape for the upcoming summer season and that is for the mountainbike season! But how do you train, if you don't want to sit on a roll in your basement or in a stinky fitness centre. ... http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/cyclocross-road-racing-bike-or-crossbike/uncategorized/ A old friend of mine, Rainer Nootz, started his own ski company in Konstanz last year. Together with Werner Früh - a snowboard veteran and designer of various boards including the Jester series - he founded Powder Equipment. Powder Equipment specialises on Freeride and Big-Mountain skis and boards - hand ... http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/powder-equipment-now-live-and-available/equipment/ Wow - last weekend I went for my first early season tour to the Spitzingsee. It's a small, but nice Resort and only one hour driving from Munich. An guess what - I found tons of freshest and nicest powder for skiing. So, I chose to hike up to the ... http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/november-powderworld-incredible-but-true-tons-of-snow-at-spitzingsee/bavarian-alps/ Okay, after a long time I finally have to retire my old friends: It is time for some new skiing boots, or to be more precise, time for some new freeride boots! But which ones? So far, I used two pairs, that is a Scarpa Denali XT for longer hiking ... http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/time-for-new-skiing-boots-but-which-ones-freeride-race-randonee-or-both/plugin-test/ The Chilean Andes house quite some interesting and large ski resorts. Most well-known are Valle Nevado and Portillo. But there are even so me smaller one - and the most interessting of them is Ski Arpa. Ski Arpa is not a ski resort in the traditionell way - there are no ... http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/ski-arpa-ski-resort-in-the-chilean-andes-review/chile/ This is just a test post for my latest wordpress plugin - the lightbox 2 for a nice flash presentation of images. Ad guess what, it works! http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/test-2/plugin-test/ Hier liegt Ski Arpa Dies ist die Map http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/test-post-fur-google-maps/plugin-test/ Our second exotic skiing trip took us again to Southamerica - but this time Chile and Argentina. Why again? Well there were still plenty of skiing resorts to see and still are (even after that trip). This time we decided to go in the high winter season - that in ... http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/skiing-trips-southamerica-chile-and-argentinia-%e2%80%9805-sierra-nevado-el-condor-ski-arpa-las-lenas/chile/ During the last years, we did a couple of quite exotic skiing trips. The first of those trips took us to the Argentinian Andes. 3 weeks for Buenos Aires, Bariloche (Cerro Catedral), Chapelco and Cerro Castor in Tierra del Fuego. Altogether we had a dozen skiing days - the rest was ... http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/skiing-trips-southamerica-argentinia-04-bariloche-chapelco-cerro-castor/argentinia/ What would you expect end of March 2007 up on the Zugspitz Plateau... Well when we went there last weekend, we didn‘t expect much, except for tons of snow, crystal clear and crisp conditions and perfect pow. And we weren‘t disappointed, it really was a perfect day. Normally, the Zugspitz Plateau gets boring ... http://www.powderspace.com/Blog/zugspitze-garmisch-freeriding-spring-2007/zugspitze/